Dirty Succession Game

[debeest]

Either JRabbit or the next person should take a turn.

[Zedd]

STYOM, hello STYOM

Well he seems to be MIA, Mr. Rabbit could you step in and get this succession game moveing?

[-Jrabbit]

I'm planning 8 turns with the Sailing Sivvers tonight.
After that, I guess I'll jump back to this one.

Looks like I'll never get a 2nd turn in the free-4-all...

[-Jrabbit]

OK, I've got it D/L'd. Hope to get started tonight.

10 turns of filth, correct?

[-Jrabbit]

Unzipped and took a quick look before work this morning. We seem to be rabidly ICSing (of course, I would do this "rabbitly"). Also, it appears we're on a narrow, very long "ribbon" of a world.

The only problem I see so far is a distinct lack of enemies on whom I can dirty my hands.

Unless I missed something, looks like I'll be concentrating on exploration, hoping to find new targets for our nefarious brand of diplomacy...

...or am I missing something??????

[debeest]

Sounds right to me. Just remember to keep a purple zoo city alive so we don't have to pay big science costs.

[Old n Slow]

Yup, what he said. A good bet might be to head east & find new folks to visit and trample.

[-Jrabbit]

Rabbit Zipfile 1000 A.D.

This proved to be a great disappointment. No one to fight, and horrific production/income/happiness problems across 28+ cities.

Log coming...

[-Jrabbit]

Rabbit Log

It's 800 AD and the empire is Supreme. Rabbit notes with satisfaction that our rep is Atrocious. Mongols have only Kabul left, and we don't know where it is. Nor do we know where anyone else is. The treasury holds 314 GP. We have 28 cities but only 1.81 ppl. Faders are set to the standard 30-70-0, netting 5 GP/turn and a new tech each 16 turns.

So what do we need next?

--Enemies
--Exploration
--Income
--Cities

We rush temples here and theere, incrementally rush a few other items. ENTER.
820 -- Temples in big Valley, Feculent, Sleaze Bag, Rubbish Tip. 3 new settlers. Much shuffling about, getting a feel for where everything is and what it might be for...

840
Buy lone barb chariot at Raw Hide.

860
Down to "0" net income (173 in the bank)
Barb trireme lands legions at Karakorum.

880
Forced to kill legion/king at Karakorum lest we lose the city.

900
disorder in Foul Play
Try 40-60-0 for +5 income

920
Kitty's Gift founded (black face)

940

960
Found villages of Ickytown and Oily Rag.

980
Mongols learn Republic and sign peace treaty with Chinese.
Establish Grimy Gulch
Deliver demanded Salt caravan from Lost Soap to Raw Hide for 24 GP

1000
Chariot boards trireme outside Raw Hide for exploration to south.
Explorer reaches nothern icecap, to go west.
Triremes heading to north and south polar wastes for exploration.

Very frustrating. No techs, slow exploration, new cities need young Elvis. :grrr:

I'm not an ICS guy, so I'm sure I missed a few things. RCC encouraged...

[Zedd]

LaFayette?

[La Fayette]

Sorry, I didn't notice.
I play today

[La Fayette]

35 cities, most of them hiring Elvises =
Nothing else to do than survive and try to run (very slowly) towards Steam.
A look at 'Find City' (which is NOT the same as black-clicking) shows that Beijing should not be too far away in the West.

1060:
We discover Maths and start researching Astro.
Beads (d) delivered to Bokhara = 32g.

1140:
Salt (d) to Samarkand = 48g
Silver (nd) to Bokhara = 34g
Hut = AT = Stinking Pipe (size 4, with temple and MP)

1160:
Hut = Astro
WE DISCOVER CHENGDU
Chinese are willing to give Wheel (we give Mono).
They also have Republic to offer, but I don't feel like switching to Republic now. Peace with Chinese (this shouldn't last long, since we are so DIRTY ).
I start building a number of triremes, since we need 7-8 for a complete shipchain to China.
We also start researching Engineering.

1180:
We discover Beijing.
2 Barb legions land near Sordid (we switch to Crusader)

1200:
Barbs kill 2 warriors in Sordid. Our newbuilt crusader kills 2 Barb legions

Advice to my successor:
If I were you, I would hurry up and finish building the shipchain to China, then deliver as many camels as possible, in order to get to Steam Engine ASAP.

But, of course, you are perfectly free to choose a more dirty path

[debeest]

1) Old n Slow
2) JRabbit
3) STYOM
4) Lafayette
5) SG1
6) Zedd
7) debeest
8) Duke of York

Lafayette just took a turn, skipping over the missing STYOM. SG1 is hors de guerre. Should Zedd go, and let STYOM or SG1 step in when they can?

[-Jrabbit]

I think Zedd should go for it. Let's get this moving again!

[Scouse Gits]

Zedd - if you can beat me to it feel free to do so - I hope to be able to have a go later today - but have yet to d/l - if you can start before me please do so ...

Stu